Author: Ian Trimnell

Music videos for Sunday, 1 November 2020

Prelude  Improvisation on SINE NOMINE Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, improvisation by Adrian Boynton. Choir Introit Holy is the true light Words from the Salisbury Diurnal by G.H. Palmer. Composed by William Harris. Hymn For all the saints who from their labours rest Words by William Walsham How.  Tune: SINE NOMINE composed by Ralph Vaugham Williams....

Evening Prayer Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Let everything that has life, let everything that has breath give all the glory and honour and praise to the One who overcame death. Let every living thing sing of the mercies of our God. Let us exalt Him wherever we live with thanksgiving and joy in our hearts. If we don’t praise Him, the mountains...

Evening Prayer Tuesday, 27 October 2020

To be nothing Is to consent to being a simple creature. This is the place of encounter with “I AM that I Am.” When there is no more “me, myself, or mine,” Only “I AM” remains. Then the “I” may fall away, Leaving just the AM. . . .  Thomas Keating, “Out of Nothing” Good evening and...

Morning Prayer Tuesday, 27 October 2020

If you must be heard, let it be like the babbling brook, laughing over the rocks. If you must be seen, let it be like sunlight giving warmth and comfort to all. If you must be acknowledged, let it be as the eyes behold the skies in all their glory. If you must lead, let it...

Evening Prayer Monday, 26 October 2020

Go peaceful in gentleness through the violence of these days. Give freely. Show tenderness in all your ways. Through darkness, in troubled times let holiness be your aim. Seek wisdom. Let faithfulness burn like a flame. God speed you! God lead you, and keep you wrapped around His heart! May you be known by love. Be...

Morning Prayer Monday, 26 October 2020

Our New Earth Awakening By Delores Wiltse There is a new earth awakening, and I am there For all “my little” secrets will be laid to bare I am watching my thoughts and feeling my pain Until I go through it there will be no gain To stand in presence NOW is all there is to...

Music to end the Day for Sunday, 25 October 2020

Good evening, everyone. Music to end the day opens with a reflective Folk Tune by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs. The name of Armstrong Gibbs may not be familiar, but he was one of the most prolific English composers of the twentieth century (taught by Vaughan Williams), with a vast portfolio of songs and instrumental works. Armstrong Gibbs’s...

Music videos for Sunday, 25 October 2020

Organ Prelude O for the wings of a dove From the cantata “Hear my prayer” composed by Felix Mendelssohn. Introit Locus iste a Deo factus A sacred motet composed by Anton Bruckner. Hymn Alleluia, sing to Jesus Words by W. Chatterton Dix. Tune: HYFRYDOL by Rowland Hugh Pritchard. Choral response Ubi Caritas Composed by Ola Gjeilo. Hymn...

Evening Prayer Wednesday, 21 October 2020

The Secret Embrace By Fr Thomas Keating © Before being born into the world of time, The silence of pre-existence was all absorbing. The transition from eternity to time Is full of sufferings, fears, and little deaths. But, in the transition from death To eternal life, The silence of pre-existence Bursts into boundless joy. All that...

Evening Prayer Tuesday, 20 October 2020

GLIMPSE by Chase Twichell © It was as if a window suddenly blew open and the sky outside the mind came flooding in. My childhood shriveled to a close, thread of smoke that rose and touched a cloud — or the cloud’s replica adrift on the slow river of thinking — and disappeared inside it. In...

Evening Prayer Tuesday, 20 October 2020

GLIMPSE by Chase Twichell © It was as if a window suddenly blew open and the sky outside the mind came flooding in. My childhood shriveled to a close, thread of smoke that rose and touched a cloud — or the cloud’s replica adrift on the slow river of thinking — and disappeared inside it. In...

Morning Prayer Tuesday, 20 October 2020

  The Awakening Age  By Ben Okri  O ye who travel the meridian line, May the vision of a new world within you shine. May eyes that have lived with poverty’s rage, See through to the glory of the awakening age. For we are all richly linked in hope, Woven in history, like a mountain rope....

Evening Prayer Monday, 19 October 2020

I Will Not Die an Unlived Life By Dawna Markova © I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes...

Morning Prayer Monday, 19 October 2020

Awakening By RoKu ©  the spirit of morning becomes I awakening and filling in the very deep soul within with laughter and light with jollity hugs tears with passion and kisses I am the awakening I am the glad surprise a tiny creature powerless and yet still arise before flashing rays learning to rejoice with all in...

Music videos for Sunday, 18 October 2020

Prelude Andante from Sonata no 6 in D minor From opus 65 six Organ Sonatas composed by Felix Mendelssohn. Introit How beauteous are their feet Words by Isaac Watts. Tune: VENICE composed by William Amps. Hymn Let All the World in Every Corner Sing Words by George Herbert. Tune: LUCKINGTON by Basil Harwood. Kyrie Eleison Collegium Regale...